Help I STINK!!!!

[FW]

There is another cross piece about where the crotch of the drysuit is. I also put a T fitting at the top with short piece of pipe to spread the load out over the entire foot area.

Thanks. Is that 2" pipe?

[cwswine]

Thanks. Is that 2" pipe?

Mine is made out of 1 1/2 but if I was going build one again it would be out 2", 1 1/2 pipe on the feet will let tilt with wetsuit hung on it.

[MORGAN]

ditto! & take it off in the head spring, rinse completely, turn inside out & hang by the legs to dry. Then jump back in yourself, flush well, & exit the spring to dry off. No amount of kidney filtered fluids is going to hurt your wet suit, unless you do not rinse it off first & let dry ! Been there, done it many, many times....it never stank !

This is just what I do - never had any problems. I don't know whether it's excessive predive hydration, immersion diuresis, or Pavlovian conditioning, but I pee within 20 minutes of getting into the water on every dive. At work I often go 4 hours without getting a bathroom break, no problem, but when I dive, I pee!

[curtschu]

right before the dive, empty bladder. it doesn't fill up that fast....so far longest dive was 3:32. Add dress time, swim down the run at Ginnie, etc, it was only about 4 hours. We go all the time for that long without doing so. The only difference is that just about is my limit due to extra hydration in prep for diving.

Give it another couple of years your are right on the edge of that still young guy almost old guy age.... when you need the reading glasses all the time to see your gauges and computer. Getting old sucks but at least we made it.

[MORGAN]

Blackchains, ain't you a skydiver? Go for a jump - that ought to blow the stink off you! Of course for it to work you'd have to jump nekkid...

[JE]

how much you take for the Vette ?

[JE]

Bull frogs work best ! Preferrably 'Bama' Bull frogs ! put wet suit in plastic container & the dump a few bulls in with it..cover & let sit over nite ! pre dive the next mornng rinse & let hang dry. Save the frogs for later....you never know when you may neesd them again !

[HansB]

A word of warning about PVC Drying Racks:

I've been told to avoid having PVC pipe come into contact with latex seals for an extended period of time. There is a reaction between the materials that can weaken and eventually melt the latex over a long period of time.

[Red Hat Jef]

I've read/heard way too many stories of UTI's from P-valves. Scary stories. I've never known of a guy that got one from "holding it" for two hours.

A year ago a buddy of mine got bent pretty badly on a cave dive at ginnie. Lots of potential causes but he did the exact same dive and exact same deco on the exact same gases as I did. We cleared our computers and then ten minutes. Type 2 hit. Collapsed on the park benches. (He eventually recovered fully)

I blame the problem on a couple of things but one was that he was pretty cold on deco. Another was that he had to pee pretty badly and rushed his surface deco to carry his doubles out of the water.

Any time I see one of my buddies rushing out of the water to pee or because they're cold now I think about that incident and wonder if it would have been a less severe problem if he was warmer (drysuit) and waited in the water on surface deco longer (p valve, or just get over the pee in your wetsuit issue).

Just m2c. I'll take stinky wetsuit over that piece of awesome. Clearly based on the folks diving here it works for some - just another view on the matter. That day changed a lot of my diving practices.

[cavemark]

For the suit stink:

Go to one of the big pet stores like petsmart and pick up a jug of the stuff for cat urine stains. It's an enzymatic cleaner and will rid the suit of the stink from more than just urine. Every time you use it you leave a bunch of dead skin cells on the inside of the suit. It may take a few treatments to completely get rid of the smell, but it should work. I used to use about a half cup in 10 gallons for my wetsuit and boots, and still use a little of it for my drysuit hood.